Thursday, April 11, 2013

More Crazy Conspiracy Theories at JREF.org

So I added a poll recenrtly and many JREF'ers ventured into wild cospiracy theorizing, but not Oystein, (thanks) take look at these comments:

cjnewson88 said:
6 to 57 now. No doubt there is a conspiracy against 'Debunking the Debunkers' at
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John-Michael Talboo said:
[It's funny taking a jab about conspiracy theories using the derogatory connotation. It's even funnier/ironic/ and hypocritical when JREF members do it, read below.]

NoahFence said:
16 Yes
132 No
1 Maybe

oops. Not going according to plan?

Oystein said:I am emailing with JM Talboo, one of the contributors to that blog, and we are on friendly and respectful terms.
...

JM actually thanked me briefly for posting the link here

Spanx Muse said:
It must have been an inside job !

If that's not evidence of an inside job, then I don't know what is

It's a good job there is an option to change your vote.

BangBang said:

Just goes to show the dishonesty of these people

JohnG said:

LOL
The poll has changed now

It must have been an inside job !

If that's not evidence of an inside job, then I don't know what is

It's a good job there is an option to change your vote.

Wow, that is some staggering, ridiculous, shameless dishonesty And if enough people change their vote the poll question will no doubt magically transmogrify yet again.

Just like I always say, you don't have to be a sociopath to be a Truther...

...but it certainly would explain a lot.

Oystein's commentary on other posts, his text bolded, the quoted text italisized:

Originally Posted by Spanx
LOL
The poll has changed now

It must have been an inside job !

If that's not evidence of an inside job, then I don't know what is

It's a good job there is an option to change your vote.

Uhm - in what way has the poll changed?

Originally Posted by BangBang

Just goes to show the dishonesty of these people
Originally Posted by fitzgibbon
Wow! Just wow. The irony that 'truthers' would stoop to dishonesty is epic
Originally Posted by fitzgibbon

Wow! Just wow. The irony that 'truthers' would stoop to dishonesty is epic
Originally Posted by JohnG:

Wow, that is some staggering, ridiculous, shameless dishonesty And if enough people change their vote the poll question will no doubt magically transmogrify yet again.

Just like I always say, you don't have to be a sociopath to be a Truther...

...but it certainly would explain a lot.

Where do you guys spot the dishonesty there?

Originally Posted by Orphia Nay:

The poll question should read, "Did this poll receive inside help"?

It received outside help from whatreallyhappened.com
http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/226497 - that was posted on March 17, the day before you noticed the "Yes" had gone up sharply. JM told me they got most traffic to their post and poll from there (more than 1700 page views, compared to 130 from forums.randi.org).

I don't think anything was manipulated

Spanx Muse reply to Oystein:
Originally Posted by Oystein
Uhm - in what way has the poll changed?

It was a jump of 700 yes votes, As to whether the poll was manipulated before it was posted on WRH we will never know.

fitzgibbon said:

Wow! Just wow. The irony that 'truthers' would stoop to dishonesty is epic.

John-Michael Talboo:
Go ahead and use the poll option on blogger.com and you will find this... just as I suspected.